Abstract

JOERG RICHARD, Vetter Hiebert; GLORIA, González de Weston; JOSE GASPAR, Petters  and  ADELAIDA, Quintana Ruiz Díaz. Case Report: rabies in a bat (eptesicus sp.) captured in the campus of the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, city of san Lorenzo, Paraguay. Compend. cienc. vet [online]. 2021, vol.11, n.2, pp.41-45. ISSN 2226-1761.  https://doi.org/10.18004/compend.cienc.vet.2021.11.02.41.

ABSTRACT. Rabies is a preventable, viral, infectious disease caused by the Rabies lyssavirus, which affects the central nervous system in all mammals and, where inoculated, produces an acute progressive encephalitis with a mortality rate close to 100%. This article reports a case of rabies in a bat belonging to the Genera Eptesicus that was assisted in the Wildlife Practice in the Department of Wildlife and Natural Environment, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, National University of Asunción, Paraguay.

Keywords : wildlife; infectious diseases; chiroptera; rabdovirus; zoonosis..

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